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Apr 6, 2012 Maharashtra land row: CAG report names Vilasrao: "The CAG report on the land row also puts several serving Maharashtra ministers in the dock."
Apr 6, 2012 97 per cent of India's air defence guns are obsolete: "The network, set up to protect the Army field formations and vital installations from air attack, has been called vintage."
Apr 6, 2012 Benami land deal may cost MP minister his job: "A report has exposed how a key minister in the Shivraj Singh Chouhan's government is involved in a 15 crore benami land deal."
Apr 6, 2012 Physically challenged man beaten by cops in UP: "Men in uniform turn goons"
Apr 6, 2012 Shocking video: Punjab cop brutally beats up woman: "22 year old brutally beaten up by policeman"
Apr 6, 2012 Did arms lobby neuter both Antony and Gen VK Singh?
Apr 6, 2012 HC axes UP numberplate deal scam, CBI to probe: "Such was the quantum of the scam that state vehicle owners would have ended up paying a whopping `800 crores extra over 15 years for procuring these numberplates."
Apr 6, 2012 India accounts for 20 per cent of global blind population: "With 7.8 million blind people in India, the country accounts for 20 per cent of the 39 million blind population across the globe"
Apr 6, 2012 Out on bail but fearful of cops, he decides to return to jail: "Karan, 31, claimed he was under threat from some police officers outside the jail, and he feared that they will either kill him or frame him in false cases."
Apr 6, 2012 Three minor girls raped by peon at government orphanage in Allahabad: "three minor girls were raped by peon in Rajikiya Shishu Grih, an orphanage run by the government, for children below 10 years of age in Allahabad district. The victims are said to be between 6 to 9 years of age were subjected to physical and mental trauma for last few months."
Apr 6, 2012 Maharashtra legislators fudged income for acquiring govt flats: CAG: "Eleven Maharashtra legislators indicted in the yet-to-be-released CAG report, had declared their monthly income ranging from Rs 2,500 to Rs 12,500 to acquire large flats under the government quota in Ashirwad Co-operative Housing Society in suburban Mumbai."
Apr 3, 2012 Sweet Sound of Scams: "the name of their second album comes as no surprise, Topiwalleh, conjuring images of politicians."
Apr 3, 2012 RBI governor latest victim of scam e-mail: "What the scamsters want is your bank details so that the so-called "governor" credits your account with the booty, to be split 50:50, after costs."
Apr 3, 2012 India loses credibility in the world: Gadkari
Apr 3, 2012 Orissa names corrupt officials in ‘Hall of Shame’: "Other prominent names in the list includes a member of Orissa Arbitration Tribunal, a former director of mines, contractor B Prabhakaran, miner Diptiranjan Patnaik, treasury officers, accounts officers, traffic inspectors, motor vehicle inspectors, regional transport officers, and even several clerks."
Apr 3, 2012 Indian Premier League 2012 out to bat on an increasingly sticky wicket: "From the start, there were allegations of unethical behaviour, tax evasion and corruption."
Apr 3, 2012 Orissa govt puts out list of ‘corrupt’: "Kick-starting its plan to “name and shame” the people allegedly involved in corrupt deals, the Naveen Patnaik government on Monday posted online a list of persons facing graft cases."
Apr 3, 2012 India Digest: World Bank Cries Fraud, Graft in Highways Projects
Apr 3, 2012 Will Meghalya speaker take action?: "The attack came after photographs showing the MLA sleeping through an assembly session were published. Beaten black and blue, Walton had to be hospitalised.", "lawmaker or lawbreaker?"
Apr 3, 2012 Bribe bomb row: Army Chief writes to CBI: "Army Chief General VK Singh writes to CBI seeking more time to file a reply on the 14 crore bribe issue. The Army Chief had claimed in media interviews that an equipment lobbyist had offered him a bribe of Rs 14 crore"
Apr 3, 2012 5 star treatment for Bibi Jagir Kaur in jail?: "Even as Bibi Jagir Kaur, a SAD MLA, is currently lodged in the Kapurthala Jail after being convicted for forceful abortion and abduction of her daughter, she still enjoys VVIP treatment that she enjoyed as a minister. An LCD TV was installed in Bibi's ward and even the police officials don't object to her using a mobile phone.", "Authorities touch Bibi Kaur's feet as she arrives in jail"
Apr 3, 2012 NRHM scam: UP buys Rs 1,200 eye chart at Rs 21,000: "the Central Bureau of Investigation has discovered that most of the medical equipment were bought from Delhi’s Sadar Bazar for peanuts and were sold off at astronomical prices to the Mayawati-led UP government under the NRHM scheme.", "Not even once any medical nurse or officer sat in that shabby building. This building is abandoned right from its inception in 2009. It was used as barat ghar twice, but now its roof leaks during rains.”"
Apr 3, 2012 The truth about Tatra deal: What's the inside story?: "The Tatra truck deal came under scrutiny after General VK Singh claimed that he was offered Rs 14 crore bribe to clear it."
Apr 3, 2012 Maid torture: Lookout notice against the couple: "The Delhi police has issued a lookout notice against the doctor couple who had locked up their 13-year-old maid and left for a holiday in Bangkok."
Apr 3, 2012 ‘Inspector raj’ haunts as gold jewellers intensify strike: "another threat that looms large over the industry is that of rampant corruption. "We have no problem about the introduction of the excise duty but its procedure is very complicated and impractical and jewellers cannot maintain all records,""
Apr 3, 2012 BBC: India parents 'reject newborn girl for baby boy': "A newborn Indian girl has been left unwanted as her presumed parents seek custody of a baby boy handed to them by mistake,"
Apr 3, 2012 कैसे भारत को कह दूँ महान?: "चिकोटी काटी जाती थी और उसकी चीख बाहर न पहुँचे इसके लिए मुँह को कपड़े से ठूँस कर बंद किया जाता था... कभी-कभी जूता भी ठूँस दिया जाता था.", "अपनी बिटिया को ये कहने में शर्म सी महसूस हुई कि भारत सबसे महान है अगर महान होना कोई पोज़िटिव बात है तो......"
Apr 3, 2012 Andhra Pradesh: Man beats wife to force abortion: "The victim claims that this was her fifth pregnancy and there were 2 previous cases of forcible abortions as she was carrying a girl child."
Apr 3, 2012 Pune cop caught 'stealing' motorbike: "when he went to file his complaint, the policemen on duty demanded Rs 300 for filing an FIR and Rs 2,000 for conducting the 'panchanama'."
Apr 2, 2012 Bangalore firms slow in tackling fraud: "If you think that post the 2009 Satyam scandal, Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC), the auditors of the firm, has lost clients, you are mistaken."
Apr 2, 2012 Bloomberg: General’s Bribe Bombshell Adds to India Leadership Disarray
Apr 2, 2012 NY Times: Newswallah: A Brief History of Corruption in the Ministry of Defense: "Corruption in India’s Ministry of Defense runs deep and wide"
Apr 2, 2012 Call to set up independent authority: "An independent and self-regulatory authority free from governmental control is needed to regulate the functioning of the media, said lawyer and social activist Prashant Bhushan"
Apr 2, 2012 Net spreads to BEML chief, CBI seeks govt sanction to probe: "Widening the scope of its investigations into irregularities involving defence PSU BEML Ltd, CBI has sought the defence ministry’s sanction to begin a corruption probe against its chairman and MD V R S Natarajan."
Apr 2, 2012 Political system mired in corruption: Kiran Bedi: "Highlighting the increasing criminalisation of politics, Bedi also alleged that out of every three lawmakers in the parliament, at least one had a criminal background."
Apr 2, 2012 The globe and mail: Global business groups warn India over new tax plan: "International trade groups representing more than 250,000 companies have told Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in a letter that his government’s new retrospective tax proposals have led foreign businesses to reconsider their investments in the country."
Apr 2, 2012 B G Verghese: India's rotting defence establishment: "The disgraceful civil-military crisis India has witnessed denotes complete failure of leadership on the part of the army chief and the defence minister. Rather than try and paper over the cracks, both should go."
Apr 2, 2012 Tatra deal: Did Defence PSU BEML act like a middleman?: "One of the first whistleblowers of the deal, an officer of the Ordnance Branch, is now raising more troubling questions."
Apr 2, 2012 The inside story of the Tatra-BEML deal: "The Tatra truck deal is at the heart of army chief General V K Singh's allegations that he was offered a bribe."
Apr 2, 2012 With UPA in terminal decline, India is closed for business: "India, which was never an easy place to do business in, is now well and truly closed for business."
Apr 2, 2012 द.अफ्रीका के स्कूल भी हैं भारत जैसे: "भारत में सरकारी स्कूलों की खस्ता हालत पर आए दिन ख़बरें आती हैं "
Apr 2, 2012 सर्राफा व्यापारियों को आबकारी विभाग का डर: "दिल्ली बुलियन एंड जैवलरस एसोसिएशन के अध्यक्ष प्रेम शर्मा का कहना है कि उन्हें डर है कि आबकारी विभाग के कर्मचारी सराफा व्यापारियों को तंग करेंगे."
Apr 2, 2012 MPs Vs Team Anna: Both sides harden stand: "Kiran Bedi has lashed out at the Government for serving notices to Arvind Kejriwal instead of fulfilling the promise of reducing criminalisation in politics."
Apr 2, 2012 Can CBI arrest Jagan Reddy?: "charge sheets would be filed regarding investments by certain companies in Raghuram cements. Sources said that Jagan would feature in all these chargesheets which would be filed within the next two months."
Apr 2, 2012 Security for CBI official probing Jagan case: "Andhra Pradesh has provided 'Y' category security to CBI joint director V.V. Laxminarayana, who is heading investigations into high profile cases, including an illegal assets case against YSR Congress party leader Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy and the Sohrabuddin encounter case"
Apr 2, 2012 CIC for time limit on CVC probes: "The Central Information Commission (CIC) has asked the anti-graft watchdog Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) to fix a time limit for disposing of complaints at all levels, indicating greater urgency by institutions over corruption issues."
Apr 2, 2012 CBI reveals Jagan used YSR’s clout for deals: "looking into the financial misappropriation involving large sum of government largesse, corporate dealings including huge investments as part of quid-pro-quo arrangement, narrated how a prodigal son encouraged his father for personal benefit."
Apr 2, 2012 Britain slams India, says tax plan may hurt investment: "British finance minister George Osborne on Monday criticised an Indian plan to retroactively tax business deals, saying it could damage foreign investment in the fast-developing country."
Apr 2, 2012 70% of infants die in 1st month: "8.62 lakh children died in 2010 within 29 days of life."
Apr 2, 2012 '53 women sterilized in Bihar in 2 hours': "After the surgeries, all 53 women were crying out in pain. Though they were in desperate need of medical care, no one came to assist them," she added. Throughout India, rural women are routinely dehumanized in such unsanitary sterilization camps"
Apr 1, 2012 Don’t waste talent: "topnotch professionals imported from the private sector to bring expertise and efficiency in the government are finding it hard to navigate the bureaucracy. Some have had to fight even to get office space"
Apr 1, 2012 Los Angeles Times: India is darling of global defense firms: "India's military spending plan has arms merchants jockeying for a deal. Their only obstacles are political infighting, corruption and bureaucracy."
Apr 1, 2012 DNA exclusive: Another pirate in the Indian Army: "Lt Col Gautam Dutta, who was accused of misappropriating the ministry of youth’s funds, was then allowed wrongful use of naval facilities in his capacity as a private operator."
Apr 1, 2012 3 cops to protect each VIP, just 1 cop for 761 citizens: "Besides a central list of VIPs having over 300-odd protectees, each state and UT has its own list making these numbers run into thousands."
Apr 1, 2012 Will Kadapa MP Jagan be arrested?: "the son of former Andhra Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy rough weather is ahead with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) now filing a chargesheet against him in a prevention of corruption case."
Apr 1, 2012 I-T to issue notices to Agarwal, JMM MLAs: "A day after the seizure of Rs 2.15 crore"
Apr 1, 2012 Cops kept eyes shut during ’84 riots: CBI: "“This was a case where the police acted in a pre-planned manner and every policemen was keeping his eyes closed,”"
Apr 1, 2012 Plugging a monumental leak: "A series of II PU question paper leaks has caused a major embarrassment to the government and the department concerned"
Apr 1, 2012 Anna Hazare compares UPA Govt to 'Ravana': "Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare said that he and yoga guru Baba Ramdev will fight against the UPA government together."
Apr 1, 2012 Policemen deployed for VIP security much beyond alloted number: "According to a Home Ministry report, these 16,788 VIPs, mostly ministers, MPs, MLAs, judges and bureaucrats, were guarded by 50,059 policemen in 25 states and Union Territories in 2010 for six months or more."
Apr 1, 2012 CAG unearths Rs 55 cr loss in ration card project in Karnataka: "After receiving a payment of Rs 54.23 crore, the partner closed the operations prematurely in November 2010 without transferring any of the assets except the database of ration cards."
Mar 31, 2012 Rahul for PM? Seven reasons why he is unfit to lead: "a leader must have some experience handling something. Nehru was in politics for years before he became PM. Indira Gandhi was a minister in Lal Bahadur Shastri’s cabinet before she became PM. Even Rajiv Gandhi, for all his political inexperience, was an Indian Airlines pilot before he inherited his mother’s job. But Rahul? Has he held any job in his life?"
Mar 31, 2012 RK, who loves to hate the ‘corrupt’ - Business heavyweight and big spender, Agrawal has finger in many lucrative pies : "For his daughter’s 2011 wedding in Goa, he chartered five flights to fly his guests, including politicians, corporate honchos and Baba Ramdev, to the venue."
Mar 31, 2012 PP Longstocking: "I don't like President Pratibha Patil. And it's personal. I'm sure I wouldn't have been, well, impolite if she had been a lawyer, a politician or even a governor of a state. But being the president of India requires some qualities that Patil doesn't have. In fact, she has qualities that are totally un-presidential"
Mar 31, 2012 Fuel in short supply, get ready for hot days, dark nights
Mar 31, 2012 Karnataka DGP loses job over alleged atrocities: "The HC described Bidari as worse than Gaddafi for alleged atrocities by his team during the hunt for Veerappan."
Mar 31, 2012 Ex-Punjab minister Bibi Jagir Kaur gets VIP treatment in jail, officials touch her feet: ""Video footage shows jail officials, in uniform and civil clothes, shamelessly touching her feet. I understand that she has been extended the facility of a special darbar inside the jail where people can meet her. All this is happening on the directions of Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal."
Mar 31, 2012 Medical council scam: MCI secretary sacked: "The decision comes amidst accusations that top MCI officials were not cooperating with vigilance investigations into scams."
Mar 31, 2012 RS polls: I-T recovers huge cash from a car in Ranchi
Mar 31, 2012 CBI chargesheets Jagan in corruption case: "The CBI today filed chargesheet against Kadapa MP and YSR Congress Chief Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy and 12 others in an alleged disproportionate assets case."
Mar 31, 2012 HC shows DGP Bidari the door: "Karnataka High court on Friday (March 30) struck down appointment of Shankar Bidari as state DGP and IG, describing him as "worse than Saddam Hussain or Muammar Gaddafi" for alleged atrocities committed by the STF led by him during the hunt to nab forest brigand Veerappan."
Mar 31, 2012 CBI charges Jagan in DA case: "The CBI on Saturday filed its first chargesheet against Jagan Mohan Reddy and 12 others, including IAS officer B P Acharya, in a disproportionate assets case, accusing them of entering into a criminal conspiracy to rob public assets and enrich themselves."
Mar 31, 2012 Tatra truck deal case: CBI impounds passport of British businessman Ravi Rishi: "General Singh has assured them that he would soon provide more material about the alleged bribe offer."
Mar 31, 2012 Tatra truck deal: Antony faces jail for neglect of duty?: "Defence minister A K Antony had better come up with a "reasonable excuse" for waking up to corruption allegations in the Tatra deal two years after they had been brought to his notice. For, he would otherwise be liable for a criminal offence punishable with imprisonment up to six months."
Mar 31, 2012 Army chief names retired Lt Gen in his bribery complaint to CBI: "Army chief Gen VK Singh has named retired Lt Gen Tejinder Singh in his complaint to the CBI on the alleged Rs 14 crore bribe offered to him to clear tranche of nearly 600 Tatra trucks."
Mar 30, 2012 HD Kumaraswamy shoots himself in the foot, injures Deve Gowda: "JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy claimed that middlemen used to approach him regarding deals when his father, HD Deve Gowda, was the prime minister."
Mar 30, 2012 Price manipulators 'hijack' commodity exchanges: ASSOCHAM: "Manipulation in price and fraud by some traders at the National Commodity Exchange of India (NCDEX) is affecting thousands of genuine traders, hedgers, exporters and farmers, said industry body ASSOCHAM"
Mar 30, 2012 Counterpoint: Balwant Singh Rajoana case is about the rule of law in India: "In 1984, tens of thousands of Sikhs were killed in riots in Delhi that were believed to be led by accused Indian politicians Kumar and Tytler, but due to “technicalities,” their cases have been stayed. These riots happened almost 30 years ago, but these people are allowed to walk free."
Mar 30, 2012 Why going to the doctor is the great Indian nightmare
Mar 30, 2012 How Can I Respect MPs Who Are Criminals?: Kejriwal: "He alleged all parties were responsible for bringing Parliament to disrepute as 162 MPs with criminal cases against them -- 14 facing murder cases, 20 attempt to murder cases and 13 for kidnapping -- have managed to get into it."
Mar 30, 2012 'बेचारे' पैदल यात्री: "भारत में सड़कों पर पैदल चलना जान हथेली पर लेकर चलने के बराबर है."
Mar 30, 2012 अखबार वही जो ममता दीदी पढ़ाए!: "जी हां, राज्य में अब सरकार तय कर रही है कि सरकारी पुस्तकालयों में लोग कौन सा अखबार पढ़ेंगे और कौन सा नहीं.", "इन अखबारों की सूची में बांग्ला के पांच, हिंदी का एक और उर्दू के दो अखबार हैं. यह तमाम अखबार वही हैं जो ममता सरकार के साथ खड़े रहे हैं. इनमें से कइयों के मालिकों को ममता राज्यसभा भेज चुकी हैं."
Mar 30, 2012 Karnataka DGP Shankar Bidari worse than Muammar Gaddafi: High court: "for alleged atrocities committed by the STF led by him"
Mar 30, 2012 Bidari worse than Saddam Hussain or Muammar Gaddafi: HC: "NHRC concluded that one woman was a victim of rape and repeated torture, three women were subjected electric currents through different parts of their body, seven subjected to illegal detention and assault, three suffered permanent disability, 11 stripped naked and given electric shocks, 12 unlawfully detained, one was taken into custody but never returned and 60 were killed in encounters out of 36 were killed in "false encounters"."
Mar 30, 2012 Not a battle between Army & Govt: Army Chief
Mar 30, 2012 Top cop worse than Saddam Hussain or Gaddafi: Karnataka HC: "Karnataka high court on Friday struck down appointment of Shankar Bidari as state DGP and IG, describing him as "worse than Saddam Hussain or Muammar Gaddafi" for alleged atrocities committed by the STF led by him during the hunt to nab forest brigand Veerappan."
Mar 30, 2012 Rs 2 cr recovered from car in Ranchi: "Over Rs 2 crore was on Friday (March 30) seized allegedly from a car owned by the younger brother of an independent Rajya Sabha candidate, a recovery which comes on a day when polls for the Upper House are being held in Jharkhand. "The cash was seized near Rampur haat under Namkum police station"
Mar 30, 2012 Archer Nisha Rani sells archery equipment for poverty: "Abject poverty has forced an international gold medal winning archer in Jhrakhand to sell off her world-class archery equipment for money."
Mar 30, 2012 Punjab minister convicted in daughter's abortion case: "Bibi Jagir Kaur has been sentenced to five years rigorous imprisonment. She has been let off in the murder case."
Mar 30, 2012 Can't respect Parliament of present days, it has criminal MPs: Kejriwal: "all the parties are responsible for bringing Parliament to disrepute as 162 MPs with criminal background have managed to get into it."
Mar 30, 2012 Sonia, PM knew about Tatra deal: Karnataka leader: "Hanumanthappa claimed that Sonia had asked Ghulam Nabi to forward his letter on Tatra-BEML deal to the concerned department."
Mar 30, 2012 Gen Singh's bribe claim: CBI grills Tatra boss: "The CBI has registered an FIR in the Tatra-BEML deal under which all-terrain vehicles are supplied to the Indian Army."
Mar 30, 2012 Delhi: Teenaged help found locked up with bruises: "The 13-year-old was rescued on Thursday evening after she managed to unlock a window and shout for help."
Mar 30, 2012 EC recommends countermanding Jharkhand RS polls: "The Election Commission countermanded the polls after rampant horsetrading and recovery of crores of rupees."
Mar 29, 2012 Corporators give themselves a hike: "As per the resolution, the Mayor should get Rs 40,000 per month, a more than 100 per cent hike from the current Rs 15,000. The Deputy Mayor is to get Rs 30,000 per month, up from Rs 15,000, and the corporators will get Rs 25,000, a hike of Rs 17,500 from the existing pay of Rs 7,500."
Mar 29, 2012 MLA discovers ‘cure’ for AIDS: "Squeeze your private parts tightly and urinate forcefully after intercourse to keep AIDS at bay, is Rajasthan MLA Devi Singh Bhatti’s prescription for people."
Mar 29, 2012 Y S Rajasekhara Reddy's land doles cost Andhra Rs 1 lakh crore: CAG: "A total of 88,500 acres of land was allotted in this manner to private parties, depriving the state revenue of nearly Rs 1 lakh crore."
Mar 29, 2012 16 cops get life terms for fake encounter in UP: "Twenty years after a case of staged shootout, a CBI court in Ghaziabad on Thursday held 17 policemen guilty and sentenced 16 of them to life imprisonment, making it perhaps the largest number of cops convicted for life at one go in the country.", "The Ghaziabad CBI court order, a rarity, only underscores UP's dubious distinction of recording the largest number of fake encounters in the country"
Mar 29, 2012 Sources: CBI likely to call Lt Gen Tejinder for questioning: "the CBI is likely to question Lt Gen (retd) Tejinder Singh in connection with the allegations that he had had offered Rs 14 crore as bribe to Army Chief General VK Singh to strike a defence deal."
Mar 29, 2012 India's biggest defence deal in trouble?: "now questions are being raised by those within the Union Defence Ministry over the evaluation process that led to the decision to award the contract for 126 aircraft to Rafale."

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